A Second Chance

Hundred years from now, after the surface of the Earth freezes thanks to geo-engineering gone wrong, two spaceships leave the planet. The Long hosts the rich and powerful, who surrounded themselves with the best intellectuals and craftspeople. The other ship, the Yoda, is an upgraded spacefreighter with a crew of outcasts, children, and survival artists. It is not certain that it will survive the launch, or that it'll ever be able to reach Mars, where leftover supplies may allow the ship and its crew to go further into space.
Can an artifical intelligence change the fate of the Earth by sending a time machine in the past? Will the plan work if the entire fate of the future is in the hands of two young people of our time?

"A second Chance" is a twisted, witty, and suspenseful time-travel novel. Beside the rescue of Earth, it deals with the question of how we want to live together. A joy to read for nature lovers, philosophers, engineers, and anyone who always believed you should never trust an AI.

Opinions
"This novel is full of surprises and discoveries from beginning to end" (Sandra Will)
"Science Fiction at its best with wonderfully multifaceted parallels to the here and now." (Antje Br ckner)